She is known for playing the shy and retiring type on television. But it seems there may be more to former X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger than meets the eye. For former Pussycat Dolls bandmate Kaya Jone has lambasted the singer, branding her a stuck-up diva. It comes after Nicole kicked proverbial sand in the faces of the rest of the chart-topping group by claiming she sang 95 per cent of the vocals on their tracks.
Furious Kaya told TMZ the only reason Nicole sang lead vocals for everything, is because ‘there was a lot more going on behind the scenes.’ The Buttons singer added: ‘Nicole was always someone who wanted to be in the spotlight and would do pretty much anything to get it. ‘To call the other girls in the Pussycat Dolls “window dressings” is a bit farfetched … every girl in the group was talented.’ Kaya starred in the group alongside Nicole from 2003-06, and left the band just before they broke big with the debut PCD album, though she was a member when their smash song Don’t Cha was released. She estimated she ‘probably did 95 per cent’ of the singing ‘on my own’ for the band’s debut.
Lewis Hamilton’s squeeze added: ‘I hope I don’t get in trouble for the stuff that I say, but I’ll never forget I finished the album, PCD, and Ron and I brought the girls into the studio and we played it for them. ‘It was the first time they’d ever heard the music. Do you understand what I’m saying? We played the album for the Pussycat Dolls. It was the first time they’d ever heard the songs.’ The album’s executive producer Ron Fair backed up her version of events. He said: ‘Melody sang a bit here and there, but the records were Nicole, with the exception of an occasional ad-lib. They were Nicole. It was her.’
